Cellach mac Cerbaill
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Cellach mac Cerbaill was a medieval Irish king of Osraige known from early Irish annals as a significant regional ruler in what is now southeastern Ireland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cellach mac Cerbaill canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9337179 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cellach mac Cerbaill Context triple: [Osraige, notableKing, Cellach mac Cerbaill]
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A.
Bridei mac Bili
Bridei mac Bili was a powerful 7th-century king of the Picts, best known for his military successes against the Northumbrians and for consolidating Pictish power in northern Britain.
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B.
Cennétig mac Lorcáin
Cennétig mac Lorcáin was a 10th-century Irish king of Thomond and patriarch of the Dál gCais dynasty, best known as the father of the High King Brian Boru.
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C.
Cuilén mac Ildulb
Cuilén mac Ildulb was a 10th-century King of Scots from the House of Alpin whose short reign was marked by dynastic conflict and his eventual death in battle.
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D.
Brion mac Echach Muigmedóin
Brion mac Echach Muigmedóin was a semi-legendary early medieval Irish dynast, regarded as the eponymous ancestor of the powerful Uí Briúin lineage of Connacht.
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E.
Conchobar mac Nessa
Conchobar mac Nessa is a legendary king of Ulster in Irish mythology, best known as the ruler during the exploits of the hero Cú Chulainn in the Ulster Cycle.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cellach mac Cerbaill Target entity description: Cellach mac Cerbaill was a medieval Irish king of Osraige known from early Irish annals as a significant regional ruler in what is now southeastern Ireland.
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A.
Bridei mac Bili
Bridei mac Bili was a powerful 7th-century king of the Picts, best known for his military successes against the Northumbrians and for consolidating Pictish power in northern Britain.
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B.
Cennétig mac Lorcáin
Cennétig mac Lorcáin was a 10th-century Irish king of Thomond and patriarch of the Dál gCais dynasty, best known as the father of the High King Brian Boru.
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C.
Cuilén mac Ildulb
Cuilén mac Ildulb was a 10th-century King of Scots from the House of Alpin whose short reign was marked by dynastic conflict and his eventual death in battle.
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D.
Brion mac Echach Muigmedóin
Brion mac Echach Muigmedóin was a semi-legendary early medieval Irish dynast, regarded as the eponymous ancestor of the powerful Uí Briúin lineage of Connacht.
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E.
Conchobar mac Nessa
Conchobar mac Nessa is a legendary king of Ulster in Irish mythology, best known as the ruler during the exploits of the hero Cú Chulainn in the Ulster Cycle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
King of Osraige
ⓘ
medieval Irish king ⓘ |
| category |
Irish monarchs
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Kings of Osraige ⓘ Medieval Gaels from Ireland ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Osraige ⓘ |
| culture | Gaelic Ireland ⓘ |
| describedIn |
Annals of Inisfallen
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Annals of Ulster ⓘ Annals of the Four Masters ⓘ Irish annals ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish ⓘ |
| father | Cerball mac Dúnlainge ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| historicalSourceType | annalistic record ⓘ |
| knownFor |
appearance in early Irish annals
ⓘ
regional kingship in southeastern Ireland ⓘ |
| language | Old Irish ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a significant regional ruler ⓘ |
| occupation | ruler ⓘ |
| partOf | Dál Birn dynasty ⓘ |
| positionHeld | King of Osraige ⓘ |
| presentDayLocationOfTerritory |
County Kilkenny
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parts of County Laois ⓘ |
| region | southeastern Ireland ⓘ |
| relative | Cerball mac Dúnlainge ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| territoryRuled | Osraige ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Cellach mac Cerbaill Description of subject: Cellach mac Cerbaill was a medieval Irish king of Osraige known from early Irish annals as a significant regional ruler in what is now southeastern Ireland.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.